From:	"Tom Demmer" <DEMMER AT brain1 DOT lstm DOT ruhr-uni-bochum DOT de>
Organization:	Lehrstuhl Stroemungsmechanik, RUB
To:	George Foot <george DOT foot AT merton DOT oxford DOT ac DOT uk>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Thu, 12 Feb 1998 10:47:35 GMT-1
MIME-Version:	1.0
Subject:	Re: Suggestion: Portability section for libc docs
Reply-to:	Demmer AT LStM DOT Ruhr-Uni-Bochum DOT De
Message-ID:	<1B0D5C30BAC@brain1.lstm.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>

[...]
> 
> I'm not sure, re: the comment about fork; this is a case of a function
> which is not fully functional in djgpp.  These docs are probably only used
> by people developping under djgpp (is that a valid assumption?) and such
> people are probably unlikely to use Unixy functions that djgpp only really
> provides to simplify porting from Unix.  OTOH, it might be wise to point
> out that djgpp's behaviour in these cases is atypical -- but the docs
> already do that IIRC.
The assumption is invalid ;-)
I do devolepment with RHIDE and move the stuff to the UNIX machines. 
[...]
> 
> I think a sensible first move would be to parse the header files and
> derive a list of functions in each category (ANSI, POSIX, neither) from
> the header files.

Yes, but I think we can go on.
[...]
Ciao
Tom

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